Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luce buried her face against Michele 's neck and for a long time they sat without moving or speaking . |
| 2 | He lay at her side and for a long while he did n't speak . |
| 3 | There is of course no need to be unduly alarmed at these discrepancies ; we should reflect that any normal language presents numerous instances where certain recalcitrant items refuse to fit into a generally acceptable pattern ( e.g. for no very obvious reason the " expected " adverbs difficultly and longly are not accepted in English and have to be replaced by the phrases with difficulty and for a long time . ) |
| 4 | He opened his cyanide powder and with a long spoon , fashioned from a elegant old walking cane , tipped powder down the hole . |
| 5 | He grasped my elbow and led me through the hallway and into a long room knocked through the whole length of the house . |
| 6 | I attended the funeral and for a long time afterwards we , as a family , used to take flowers to the grave . |
| 7 | He said motorists should check tyres every week and before a long journey . |
| 8 | But Joseph had always been very devoted to any local news and for a long time the talk of the town had been the Cockermouth man — Fletcher Christian 's — Mutiny . |
| 9 | By the time their neighbour had turned back , her cigarette lit and in a long ebony holder , both the children 's mouths were full of her home-made produce . |
| 10 | Kites are back in again , but they are a far cry from the diamond-shape oldies made from brown paper and with a long tail of twisted pieces of newspaper . |
| 11 | Before 18 months , a child wo n't recognise herself in the mirror and for a long time will describe herself in terms of attributes ( like smallness ) and her possessions . |
| 12 | In 1964 he was voted European Footballer of the Year and in a long career with Scotland he won 55 caps and earned the interchangeable nicknames ‘ Denis The Menace ’ or simply ‘ The King ’ . |
| 13 | Despite having visited the country and despite a long interest in the area , even I was not fully aware of the complexities and the depth of feeling in the various component parts of Yugoslavia until I read the quite remarkable book that Chris Cviic wrote for the Royal Institute of International Affairs only a few months ago . |
| 14 | Delaunay , for example , violently repudiated any analogy between his own art and that of the Futurists both in an open letter to the press and in a long essay written immediately after attending a lecture given by Marinetti at the time of the first Futurist exhibition in Paris . |
| 15 | Then he brought his blazing eyes unhurriedly to her face and for a long moment she found herself wishing time would stand still ; when he looked at her like that … she swallowed , felt her pulse beating wildly ; his eyes were devouring hers . |
| 16 | She spotted us at the same time and after a long look , took her offspring and ambled away along the side of the mountain . |